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September 11, 2023 50 mins

Diet culture is everywhere.

What we consider healthy. What we consider unhealthy. The foods that we’re taught are good for us and the ones that we’re told to stay away from. How we think about food, health, and wellness is shaped by a culture steeped in white supremacy culture.

There is so much more nuance available to us around food, health, wellness, and culture–not to mention enjoyment–when we break down the binary of good vs. bad foods, healthy vs. unhealthy people.

Dalina Soto, MA, RDN, LDN joins Erica for a conversation about diet and wellness culture, why ancestral and cultural foods too often get left out of the conversation, and the policy and systemic influences on what we think of as “healthy” food.

In this discussion:

  • Why we need to expand binary thinking about nutrition and health
  • How nutritional guidelines in the US leave out large swaths of cultural and ancestral foods
  • The impacts of stress and other social determinants of health on the body, and why that’s a policy failure not a personal one
  • Taking guilt and shame out of doing what you can with what  you have when it comes to food


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